Casey Allen Shobe wrote:

>>Imagine "du" being run every time someone switches mailboxes on a system
>>with more than 100 users... Calculating quota this way renders a mail
>>server unusable. :-)
>>    
>>
>
>I think that's a perfectly acceptable tradeoff for somebody wanting to use 
>quota. ;-D
>  
>

So what's the alternative?  How do you prevent a DoS attack against the
system (ie,filling up the hard drive)  .. ???

>Cheers,
>  
>


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